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Title: A sketch of Pope's Harbour with some remarks thereon taken while in search of limestone and freestone [cartographic material] / By John Marr, engineer
Contributor: Bastide, John Henry, approximately 1700-1770
Marr, John (Engineer), cartographer
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Date Created and/or Issued: 1756
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: One of a group of four maps depicting harbors in Nova Scotia made for the attention of General Jeffery Amherst, then Commander in Chief in North America. The group of maps all have the same scale as stated on the first. John Marr was an engineer assigned to British forces in Nova Scotia. John Henry Bastide was the chief engineer at Halifax. This sketch shows Pope's Harbour, several small islands and rock formations and other shipping hazards and gives the soundings in the harbor. Colored.
Extent: 1 map : color ; 38 x 36 cm
Identifier: mssHM 15474 map 2
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/16289
Subject: Popes Harbour (N.S.)--Maps
Manuscripts (aat)
Source: Kashnor Collection of Early American Maps, 1670-1856
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased from Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 105, No. 1006, 1927. CSmH

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